Brooklyn teacher wins $450,000 sex-harass settlement
NEW YORK (AP) — A high school teacher has won a $450,000 settlement from New York City in a lawsuit that claimed she was repeatedly sexually harassed by students.
Theresa Reel filed the lawsuit in 2009. She was a teacher at Brooklyn’s School for Legal Studies.
The lawsuit said she regularly endured lewd, vulgar and offensive remarks and sometimes faced threats and assaults.